Around the same time as our Magnolia viewing, I had a musical coincidence. I have been doing a one-LP-at-a-time swap with one of the paper's copy editors. We've mostly shared surf and oddity records. I recently gave him a Dirtbombs record. In return, he gave me Doug Clark and His Hot Nuts, specifically "Nuts to You," which features their black lead man flipping the bird on its cover. I, of course, caught a lucky photo of Dirtbombs' lead man Mick Collins flipping the bird at a show in Ann Arbor. So I guess we were trading bird-flippin' shots.

Finally, while covering a breaking news event on Friday, a photographer mentioned skywriting -- I think joking about methods of communicating with people lost in the woods -- then Purdy brought up skywriting in conversation tonight.